I know sometimes I feel like a mouse in a laboratory, subject to the experiments, tests, and tasks which are set up by the Director of the lab. In a sense maybe this is true; I cannot control the circumstances of my environment in which I am placed: but I am given choices, and those choices may alter the environment or my progress within.
Do we exist for God's entertainment? Do we exist only to bring Glory to God? his ways are higher than our ways and his thoughts exceed the wisest understandings amongst us: We are bound by our own deminsions to define or understand him. I can be certain of certain things about Him like his sovereignty, his love, his holiness, his justice, his promises, his knowledge of all things, his protection, his power, etc. but even my understanding is limited by my own experience and my perception within the deminsion in which I was created.
I think God made us for relationship, to him and to each other. All the laws (I may need to think this deeper) regard relationship. The very laws of nature, i.e. can a circle be squared? ---regard relationship. However, God is not limited as we would think of limitations: Jesus, resurrected, still enters a room, passing in and out through its walls or doors, unseen, like no flesh we understand, yet he is real and present enough we can tenderly carress the hands that were pierced for us, and feel the deep wound in his side, where the fountain of his life poured forth to blot away our sin; and inside the room we hear his voice and feel his tenderness as he consoles us, and reminds us of our hope, and prays for and with us, and then we see him take the bread and divide it in our midst, and shares it with us. God makes the rules but is not bound by the rules: He is sovereign over all the laws of nature, and 'nature's natural laws' will bend at his pleasure: yes, if He chooses He can make a circle square .....if it suits his purpose and his will. One day he will transform this flesh from the corruptible to the incorruptible: One day, the law of gravity will lose its power and we will take flight. One day there will be no night to follow and all will be light.
Rebellion is still in the heart, doubting, questioning, disputing, and it seems the mind is full of questions which go beyond that which is our business to know. I inquire, and then am humbled at the audacity within my being to question Him who has the right to be the end of my reasoning and the focus of my faith.
